Word: midwesterner
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...return to the athletic situation, in which I have a good midwestern phychology. I am a product of generations of graduates of the University of Michigan (loud fanfares of trumpets at this point). Thanks to a couple of grandparents, a host of aunts, and a pair of parents, I was brought up in the belief that Fielding II. Yost was the Almighty's special right hand man and that the Holy Trinity had something to do with the punt, the pass, and the prayer. Even if I were to do years of graduate work around Harvard I would never...
Secret behind this original, grammatical juvenile art lay in the black-thatched head of a rangy, bespectacled, 34-year-old Midwestern painter named Augustus Peck who drifted into the Little Red School House a year and a half ago with some new ideas about how child artists should be taught. An ex-newspaperman, Peck had spent three years teaching moppets in the Cleveland Museum of Art how to paint...
...sheer black malice, to lead you astray: Beware. For a Freshman who has just got back his first English A theme, covered with comments more pungent than insidious; and pointed up with a large red "D," this admonition can have little meaning. For a man fresh out of a midwestern high school, listening to Professor Demos at the opening lecture in Phil. A tell him that the course should make him feel that he knows even less than he knew before, this warning just doesn't make sense. For an undergraduate researcher in chemistry, confused and unable...
...seems the doctor and his Nazi colleagues had looked us Midwesterners over very carefully, observed the incipient fascism of the region and generously decided to give us some of the doctor's valuable time. Of course we were to pay for this time by taking our proper place in the Nazi future scheme of things-our proper place as Nazi-directed workers, so that our genius for making things might be utilized to the fullest for the benefit of our overlords. American women, and particularly Midwestern women not of full German parentage the doctor looked upon with horror...
Unfinished Business is a mosaic of wisely done camera sequences. Irene Dunne, a small-town Midwestern voice teacher, has come to Manhattan for adventure and a career. Saddened by her unrequited love for Foster, a wealthy wolf, she flunks her operatic try out. As she departs, she is told that her voice is good, that there must be a place for it somewhere. In a flick of the camera lens she is singing happy-birthday messages into a telephone from a telegraph office...